Synopsis: After being betrayed by the organization who hired him, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss. After being betrayed by the organization who hired him, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.

Synopsis: "In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead leads them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap."

But given your comment that no one seems to care whether these movies are any good, I guess my question is: isn't it just as easy to make a decent movie as to make an awful one? I mean, given the same bad actors and bad special effects, how much more difficult would it be to be at least give them decent plot and scripts?

I think each entry in the series has gotten progresisvely better than the last, and, on the whole, they're pretty entertaining B-movies. They're terrible adaptations of the game series, but if you look past the source material, they're fun.

Main downside is they've been emphasizing the 3D so much in the marketing that we didn't get the clever teasers and trailers that the previous movies had, so it's difficult to get a sense of film's concept here. I didn't even know it was ste in LA- I assumed they'd be in Japan, as was hinted at previously.

That said, I would like to see this series eventually conclude (and not on another cliffhanger) so thatthey could reboot it and do one truer to the source material.

You did say the "source material" was a videogame, right? And the source material for the video game was bad sci fi and horror movies? Given that, the films are about as "true" to the source material as it is possible to get. The movies complete the circle of bad entertainment.

Well, I mean mostly that while the games are a more serious survival horror genre, the movies are mostly Matrixy (kung-fu/anime-influenced/stylized) action films inspired by other films (most notably the first film being an Aliens ripoff, and the 3rd being your Mad Maxish post-apocalyptic genre) and, with slight exception to crossover appearances in the 2nd and 4th films, do not even feature the characters and events from the games (but, rather, attempt a story parallel to those events.. to a point, at least).

It's a bit like making a Lords of the Rings movie starring Lothos- an original character from another planet who happens to meet Frodo a couple times along his own route to Mount Doom to destroy Sauronaught- the other evil in kahoots with Sauron that everyone else is ignoring.

It's a bit like making a Lords of the Rings movie starring Lothos- an original character from another planet who happens to meet Frodo a couple times along his own route to Mount Doom to destroy Sauronaught- the other evil in kahoots with Sauron that everyone else is ignoring.

It's a bit like making a Lords of the Rings movie starring Lothos- an original character from another planet who happens to meet Frodo a couple times along his own route to Mount Doom to destroy Sauronaught- the other evil in kahoots with Sauron that everyone else is ignoring.

I think each entry in the series has gotten progresisvely better than the last, and, on the whole, they're pretty entertaining B-movies. They're terrible adaptations of the game series, but if you look past the source material, they're fun.

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That's pretty much always been my take on these movies. They're dumb fun, but still entertaining enough to where I keep watching each new installment. It's a series about freaking zombies, not Shakesphere, and people need to quit expecting more out of a series of films like this, if they go in with impossible expectations. I can't think of a better franchise based on video games, and yes that includes the holy MK movies which I thought sucked.

Seriously, when franchises like Saw can continue to make a profit, shoving off a sequel every year, where's the problem with this franchis? They obviously make money, or they wouldn't keep making them. You can argue artistic vision all you want, and be as snobby about film as much as you want, but there's obviously an audience for these films, and if you don't care for them, don't watch them.

With stuff like this, I don't need art, but for a movie called Resident Evil to be so dull is just a crime. To me, the first two don't qualify even as "dumb fun" because they're all dumb with no fun. The action is dull, the horror isn't scary. There's no humor or wit or charm. It's just an exercise in attractive women kicking bad special effects in the face, and that's not enough even for a movie like this.

Yeah, while I have a higher opinion of the movies than Mastadge, he is right that these don't live up to their potential for the genre. Even something like the animated Resident Evil: Degeneration would be superior.